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Darrel Manson

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I Am the Night – TV Noir

I Am the Night – TV Noir

?Some stories you can?t tell. Some stories don?t want to be told. Some stories will eat you alive.? TNT?s limited series I Am the Night is a large dose of noir for the small screen. It is moody and ominous, but with a certain moral light flickering amidst overwhelming...

Slamdance Film Festival – Day 3

Slamdance Film Festival – Day 3

Since most of the films (exceptions: Boni Bonita and This Teacher) I?m reporting on today are docs, I?d like to highlight some documentary filmmakers who have premiered work at Slamdance: Marilyn Agrelo (Mad Hot Ballroom), Seth Gordon, (King of Kong: A Fistful of...

Slamdance Film Festival – Day 2

Slamdance Film Festival – Day 2

Slamdance is designed to focus on new and emerging filmmakers. Over the last 25 years it has produced an impressive alumni list, including (with some of their more well known films): Christopher Nolan (Dunkirk, Batman Begins, Memento), Jared Hess (Napoleon Dynamiite),...

Slamdance Film Festival – Day 1

Slamdance Film Festival – Day 1

Welcome to Slamdance. While most of the world is familiar with the Sundance Film Festival, they may not have heard of Slamdance, a renegade festival also held in Park City, Utah, the same week. Slamdance?s mantra is ?By Filmmakers, For Filmmakers?. It is celebrating...

On the Basis of Sex – RBG Fights the System

?Courts ought not be affected by the weather of the day, but will be by the climate of the era.? Before she became a Supreme Court Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg was one who fought against sex discrimination. One the Basis of Sex focuses on her life from the time she...